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Inspiration – Illustrations of Katie Kirk

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

This week we’ve got the illustrative work of Katie Kirk. I stumbled across Katie’s work a while ago, and loved the clean vectors, creative patterns, and just overall awesome work. Here’s a little bit about Katie from her website:

Katie Kirk is a graphic designer and illustrator living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With a love of vector art and patterns, Katie is always in the mood to scheme, collaborate and create. Together with her husband, Nathan Strandberg, they started EightHourDay, a multi-disciplinary, multi-talented design boutique. Most often found either at the studio, the dog park or an antique shop they aspire for the designed life(style), a place where work, life and inspiration are all equal and integrated organically. Their work has been recognized by PDN Magazine, Print Magazine, HOW, and Communication Arts, among others.

Also be sure to check out Katie’s site for more work, news, and more. Enjoy!

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Inspirational 50 Twitter Backgrounds Showcase

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Twitter background design is one of the most important things, you can change in your account to attract new followers. We only can change little things in Twitter so why we don’t put there the best we can? Let’s change our background right now, but before we do that – time for you to get inspired!

I hand picked those 50 Twitter backgrounds, while I was browsing through like 200-300 twitter pages – these all were the ones which caught my attention. Interesting to notice, not all of favorites are really colorful, but even subtle, clean and elegant but still stood out. In my opinion the best case is to create what suits you in the meantime thinking about usability and readability – but light designs with few colors included to make design shine seems to be the best case! What’s your case?

1. @nicholaspatten

2. @chrisspooner

3. @bongobrian

4. @bartelme

5. @abduzeedo

6. @boagworld

7. @cameronolivier

8. @chriscoyier

9. @DesignerDepot

10. @digitalmash

11. @graphicidentity

12. @mmpow

13. @ArteWebdesign

14. @cheth

15. @KrisColvin

16. @marcelsantilli

17. @Ubikwitusrex

18. @rodneireiz

19. @just4theALofit

20. @Chryseiss

21. @oxygenna

22. @luciana_luz

23. @tonypeterson

24. @showcasemark

25. @XquiziteLizard

26. @HungryGirl

27. @elianarod

28. @davewilhelm

29. @nbawiileague

30. @LisaWorsham

31. @Go_Media

32. @Doubleolee

33. @theleggett

34. @Farrhad

35. @chadmcmillan

36. @myklroventine

37. @nullvariable

38. @Genuine

39. @imagedesigns

40. @marekuk

41. @Krftd

42. @ramesstudios

43. @rafalmeidaf

44. Pudny

45. @Alyssa_Milano

46. @andysowards

47. @binojxavier

48. @sharebrain

49. @Scarletbits

50. @nymphont

If your exclusive and unique background is not in this list, then feel free to share it with us in comments section!

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Architecture Photography: Beauty of Interior and Exterior Designs

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

American architect Julia Morgan once said, “Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.“.

Indeed, architecture serves as a voice to express the artistic stance of the architect at that time. Photography takes a step further to interpret architecture in several ways. What used to be an accurate portrayal of the structure has now gradually evolved into a manipulation of different perspectives to bring out the interesting elements of a single structure. The art of photographing architecture takes on many forms. Whether it is photographing the exterior or interior, many awesome images can be resulted with the correct techniques and more importantly, the observant eye to spot the different points of view.

Like other types of photography, what lies ahead is always a series of challenges for photographers before an excellent shot is taken. However, there are two main challenges in architecture photography – Lighting and Image distortion. When photographing the exterior, natural lighting is all you have got and you have to capture the building at its most glamorous moment. Image distortion occurs when the building has lines running horizontally and vertically and they appear distorted. The right equipment and the right angles would prevent that pitfall.

Interior architecture with repeating patterns and geometric shapes is a bonus to photographers. Employing the use of different camera angles would reveal the beauty of these designs. Architecture with unique and unusual structures also tend to catch our attention. We can’t help but start to ponder how it was made (or maybe built) possible. Photography comes into play as it does justice to impressive architecture.

You probably haven’t seen all the architecture in the entire globe, so we shall bring you bits of the world. Here is a collection of architecture photography that will keep you bedazzled. If you are amazed at these images, your jaws will drop in awe when you get to see the real McCoy.

Golden ceiling of Budapest Parliament | jackfre2

Balcony Harmony | roevin

Void of silence | Mindcage

Caracole | Giulio Ercolani

Lost in lines | Semir

St. Peter’s Basilica | jborowski_photo

Swirling at an angle | wonder_lick

86 Down Below | NazZmedia-Photography

Vortex | stefano longhi

Taj Mahal | sensorfleck

SOH Sails | Susie Knudsen

Way Up | christian_wind

“Vers une architecture” Towards an architecture | * galaad *

Cloisters at Durham Cathedral | Coiled_Pasta

Escaleras Helicoidales Spiral staircase | SoWhat -

Esplanade Singapore | Jusup Sukatendel

Architecture in Rotterdam | Dennis Veldman

Soaring buildings | Sebastian Trandafir

Aussie Architecture | ‘ Toshio ‘

Cathedral of Stairs | shutterBRI

Ceiling of Budapest | kimbar

Octagonal Chapter House of York Minster | KCLam

City of the Arts and the Sciences of Valencia, Spain | mhdezhdez

Arrow Heads of Esplanade Singapore | Guang Ye

El trono episcopal | SoWhat -

Let’s dance | Myxi

Alien architecture | Austrittswunde

ljusterapi | Dezeen

Observer | Kamuro

Perforated Roof | roevin

Symmetrical watercube | toomanytribbles

Underground Starship | roevin

It’s a long way up | nicksflix

Hyatt Lobby, Atlanta | scilit

Space architecture | Carsten Velten

Musical Architecture | Mauro Mendula

Architectural Contrasts | Alexandra Baltog

About Author – Kelly Swee is a new media consultant from Singapore. She specialize in video media platform and has a keen interest in digital media design artworks.

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New Office 2007 Users Get Free Upgrade to Office 2010 [Upgrades]

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

New Office 2007 Users Get Free Upgrade to Office 2010 If you need to buy a new copy of Microsoft Office but don’t want an instantly outdated suite when Office 2010 is released later this year, you’re in luck: If you buy Office 2007 any time between March 5 and September 30 of this year, you automatically qualify for a free upgrade to Office 2010 when it’s released. [Microsoft via Digital Inspiration]

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New Office 2007 Users Get Free Upgrade to Office 2010 [Upgrades]

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Collection of 30+ Stunning Hand Picked CSS-based Layouts

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Power of “CSS” is to Change the appearance of hundreds of Web pages by changing just one file and CSS represent an enormous step forward for the Web.And it’s mostly used to improvise the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language.It has structure and rules to follow.

Seven main advantages for using CSS are

Flexibility (In content submission and a web page that is well structured, allows for flexibility ) .
Rendering (For browser).
Accessibility (Build accessible websites./blogs)
Separate the content from presentation (Publication of content).
Consistency (Instead of inheritance and cascading, a global style sheet can be used to give effect and style elements site-wide).
Bandwidth ( Cache matters).
Page formatting (Ability to change).
If you want to be a CSS master you have to follow some more principles and tricks.

Here we are presenting the showcase of “Stunning CSS websites” By CSS masters.

1. Davidjonsson

In their caption of the website itself they have declared creative intelligent design and they used creative images for their pages. Website about a freelance graphic designer,he love to design logos and illustrations.

2. Delibarapp

Delibar is a full featured client for Pinboard and delicious

3. Digitalmash

A mash of work from Australian designer

4. Sketchen

Elegant yellow design.Web development agency

5. Madebytinder

Simply beautiful design in seven colors

6. Osvaldas

Just another freelancer’s website.Used some AJAX techniques

7. webdesigncompetition

8. coocoocore

Designer website.It’s Pretty cool and creative design one page website.

9. Atebits

Mobile software website.Color sense is very good in this theme

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10. Weloveicons

We Love Icons is a project by designers Dan Wiersema and Nando Albuquerque. They started they Love Icons because, well… we love icons!

11. Alkhnsaa-world

Design by mimcomp.com.

12. Atombicycles

Atom Bicycles Ltd. is the creation of Joel, a passionate cyclist. It all started over 20 years ago, when Joel and his friends decided to try what was then a new sport: mountain biking. Customizable design.

13. Designadept

Standards compliant web design.

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14. Alexswanson

Interactive media and web designer “Design’s portfolio”.Clean layout.

15. Fresh-canned

Jar Design is an XHTML/CSS website custom designed and built for Vermont-based logo, print, and packaging designer Lis Gerber.

16. Musicthoughts

17. Cromulent Design

A fun, unique website that allows visitors to choose a different layout based on their mood while displaying their work for potential clients.

18. Ignatynikulin

Ignaty Nikulin, European web designer and developer, Focus on designing high quality and custom created web solutions for inspiring projects.

19. Designdisease

Design Disease provides cost-effective Web design services focused on usability, accessibility and Web standards.

20. Arbel-designs

A beautiful portfolio website by

Idan Arbel.

21. Guerra-creativa

22. Nineteen-eighty-four

An online personal portfolio website of a Graphic designer having outstanding layout and theme.

23. Pixel-Blog

The Pixel – Award Winning Creative Design Agency.

24. Robocatapps

25. Workawesome

WorkAwesome is a resource for the worker. It’s a blog for people who want to be awesome at work. It’s also a blog for people who want to find work, or simply quit work.

26. Ormanclark

27. Desigui

Desigui is an interface design studio that creates unique, well designed and optimized interfaces web applications.

28. Eyebridge

A vibrant web design from India.

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29. Nineflavors

30. Thecolorcure

Creative team based in the Philippines. specialize in web, identity and print design.

31. Joy project

32. Beautiful2

Beautiful 2.0 is proud to showcase the best Web Design, CSS and Flash artistry for all to view and admire.

33. Cookmateapp

34. Upstruct (Design studio)

35. Yodaa

Yodaa is a San Jose based Web Design Agency that images brands through it’s creativity and simplicity.

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Member Bonus Content: 25 Super Useful Ways to Get Inspired

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Members Bonus Content: 25 Super Useful Ways to Get Inspired

Today PSDFAN is launching a weekly phenomenon – Members Bonus Content.

Once a week we will publish a top quality article as part of our regular weeks posting. However, whilst our regular visitors will receive a good amount of content totally free, our VIP members will receive additional parts to the article. This is of course in addition to our weekly members only tutorials, regular tutorials, and regular inspiration posts & articles!

Today we bring your 25 Super Useful Ways to Get Inspired. Whilst the first 10 methods are listed here, the other 15 are only available for VIP members.

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1. CSS/Website Galleries

Many designers use CSS galleries to inspire their own web design projects. What better what to get inspired than to look through dozens of incredible designs in minutes?

Recommend Inspiration:

CSS Mania

Other Inspiration:

The Best Designs

Most Inspired

CSS Remix

2. Design Networks

Design networks are a great way to promote your own work and get inspired by others. Often networks cover a wide range of mediums and professions, so you can easily check out anything from digital art to product design!

Recommend Inspiration:

Behance Network

Other Inspiration:

DeviantArt

Worth1000

Design Related

3. Logo Galleries

Just like with CSS Galleries, logo galleries can provide us with tonnes of inspiration. I personally use logo galleries even when I’m not working on a logo design, simply because the level of talent and creativity inspires my day to day work!

Recommend Inspiration:

LogoPond

Other Inspiration:

LogoFaves

Logo Galleria

Creattica (Logo Section)

4. Design Blogs

There are plenty of design blogs out there, but only a handful provide top-notch content day in day out. These sites work hard to provide us with great inspiration each day.

Recommend Inspiration:

Instant Shift

Other Inspiration:

Smashing Magazine

1st Web Designer

My Ink Blog

5. Color Pickers

Some websites offer a ‘color scheme’ service, whereby you can create and view color schemes. This can be highly inspirational, as if you’re trying to work out a suitable color palette for your project you can browse the best schemes from the gallery!

Recommend Inspiration:

Kuler

Other Inspiration:

Color Scheme Designer

Color Lovers

Color Schemer

6. Invest in Some Design Books

Blogs and websites are great for inspiration. However, sometimes it can be nice to have a book on your shelf to pick up whenever you’re feeling uninspired. These titles are all really helpful for any designer, and should definitely inspire you!

Recommend Inspiration:

Don’t Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

Other Inspiration:

Logo Lounge 3

Layout Workbook – A Real-World Guide to Building Pages in Graphic Design

Web Design: Best Studios

7. Visit an Exhibition

Too much time spent in front of a computer screen really isn’t good for you. I don’t want to sound like your mother, but often getting out and checking out great art in the ‘real world’ can be hugely inspirational. I often like to visit graphic design and art exhibitions. Check out these intriguing upcoming exhibitions:

Recommend Inspiration:

MoMA: The New Typography

Other Inspiration:

Envelopes Exhibitions

V&A: Decode (I’ve been this this and it was a lot of fun!)

MoMA: Tim Burton

8. Change Your Desktop

Research has proven that changing your desktop wallpaper can have a dramatic effect on your workflow. I try to change mine reasonably often in order to keep myself inspired. Check out the following resources for some super inspiring wallpapers!

Recommend Inspiration:

30 Stunningly Beautiful Wallpapers

Other Inspiration:

15 More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers

30 Magnificent High Def Space Wallpapers

35 High Def Wallpapers To Calm and Inspire You

9. Take Notice of Product Packaging

It’s true that inspiration lies in the world all around us. Product packaging is a part of our every day life, yet we often don’t pay attention to it on more than a subliminal level. If you stop and take notice of great design you’ll begin to feel more inspired already! I’ve based several tutorials on cool things I’ve seen in the supermarket before!

Recommend Inspiration:

Beautiful and Expressive Packaging Design

Other Inspiration:

50 Beautiful and Effective Package Designs

Showcase of 54 Creative and Beautiful Package Designs

Packaging Design Inspiration

10. Design Related Discussion and Q&A Boards

Sometimes observing isn’t enough to inspire you. It can be really inspiring to get together with other designers and discuss your favorite designs, design ideas and general design philosophies. Luckily we’ve rounded up some awesome discussion boards and Q&A forums. You can use these resources to get inspired, but also help you with any design problems/issues.

Recommend Inspiration:

Answers.DesignReviver

Other Inspiration:

Graphic Design Forum

How Design Forum

Your Design Forums

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Inspiration – Work of Designer & Coder Nick De Jardine

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

For this weeks inspiration we have the work of Design & Coder Nick De Jardine. He’s got very cool, clean, original style. He also has some very nice photography pieces in his portfolio. So check out the below work, and make sure to visit Nick’s site for more.

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A Showcase of Beautiful Architectural Photography

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Architecture is probably one of the most complex forms of art. Not only should it be beautiful, but it must also be functional. The same thing can be said about other forms of art like web design, but architecture takes place in the real world with real materials, and on a much larger scale.

Since we are most often surrounded by architecture in our daily lives, it’s to be expected that architecture is a popular subject for photographers. In this article, we are presenting a showcase of beautiful architectural photography. In these photos you’ll notice a strong focus on composition and lighting. As well, many are shot from angles that reveal beauty in the structures that probably goes unnoticed by passers-by.

Make sure you click on each photo to see a larger version and learn more about each of the talented photographers behind the cameras.

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A Showcase of Beautiful Architectural Photography

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Readers Choice Web Design Inspiration From 50+ Sites

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Web Design Inspiration

CSS Mania

CSS mania

CSS Mania was born in March 2004 as section on the personal blog of Gabriel Segura as he loafed around the few CSS Showcases that existed during that time.

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CSS Elite

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The Best Designs

The Best Designs recognizes the best Flash and CSS web sites from around the world. Websites are categorized by CSS or Flash and also by elements of the design. TBD is usually updated every weekday, with the exception of holidays.

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CSS Remix

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Free CSS

Free CSS has over 1200 free css templates in its gallery. The CSS Templates that are showcased in this site are the best that can be found in and around the net.

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CSS Website

CSS Website is an innovative gallery of simple websites. It’s purpose is to showcase designers work and to expand the CSS design community.

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Unmatched Style

Unmatched Style is not just another CSS design gallery. We want to foster constructive design criticism as well as provide inspiration to our readers.

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Divine CSS

The Divine CSS website showcases some of the world’s best designed websites (Flash & CSS) from around the world. The team at Divine CSS are made of a mixture of graphic and web designers, programmers and developers with a combined 25 years experience in the industry.

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CSS Creme

CSS Creme was created with one goal in mind – to become a showcase of best designed websites. Over the years this CSS gallery grew as more and more contributed and helped us make it better. Designer portfolios and profiles now feature some of the world’s best web design works that are setting new trends and serve as inspiration to designers.

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CSS Style

CSS Website

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CSS Based

CSS Based is a project providing web designers a gallery of well designed CSS-based websites from all around the world.

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CSS Perk

CSS Perk are dedicated to bringing you the best designed websites from around the world. CSS Perk showcase CSS and Flash based websites and only the best sites will be on display. The exclusive nature of our gallery only provides the most superior CSS and Flash websites for your viewing pleasure. These sites are on display to celebrate the hard and creative work that these webmasters do and to share it with the world.

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Design Bombs

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Best CSS Gallery

Best CSS gallery is a mission that paying attention on providing its viewers a huge number of well designed CSS and flash based websites from around the world. It is a design inspiration gallery wherever we collect a quality design websites. Its enormous intention is to display designer’s work and to enlarge the CSS design community.

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101 Best Websites

101 Best Websites is a showcase site featuring the best CSS, Flash, xHTML and designed websites across the world. You can vote for the top sites and submit your own and other people’s websites to the gallery.

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PV.M Garage’s Gallery

PV Mgarage

PV.M Garage’s Gallery is not just another CSS design gallery. We want to collect stunning designs showing the merits of each website through a complete review. Our mission is to provide a deep inspiration to our readers.

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CSS Beauty

CSSBEAUTY™ is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.

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CSS Drive

CSSBEAUTY™ is a project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world.

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The Design Inspiration

The Design Inspiration is created by a group of designers who are seeking various design inspiration every day.

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The Design Inspiration

Folio Focus is a web design gallery that exists to showcase excellent portfolio sites. Here you will find the best collection of portfolio sites from web and graphic designers, photographers, and other professionals that use a portfolio site.

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Design Snack

We’ve taken what others have done with design galleries and broke the mold, providing the users themselves with the power to create what is essentially the ultimate portfolio and inspiration tool.

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CSS Gallery

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CSS Showcases

CSS Showcases Gallery wonderful site full of very vivid and colorful sites. You can come and visit this site and you can submit any recourse sites for free. CSS Showcases only has one objective and that is to provide you with a central resource to view a wide range of eye catching and innovative web designs plus inspire you to create new and exciting web designs.

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CSS Showcase

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jQuery Style

jQuery Style is a showcase for great looking sites that use the jQuery javascript framework in interesting and thought provoking ways. If you’ve seen a site that uses jQuery please consider submitting it here.

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CSS Clip

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BmAccess

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CSS Blaze

CSS Blaze! This website was developed to showcase Innovative CSS/XHTML Web Designs submitted by Web Designers from around the world. Its also a great place for inspiration when we have designers block. You can easily search the gallery by title, color or category.

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Web Creme

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Creattica

Creattica is a gallery of great design and inspirational imagery. Anyone can submit their work for consideration and voting on items is open to one and all. The best work is accepted and featured in the gallery which receives thousands of visitors every day.

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Style Boost

Styleboost is a gallery for showcasing beautiful web sites. It has been around since January 2001 and is all about showing off great designers’ and developers’ work

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Type Inspire

TypeInspire is a showcase of typography. Most of the items that are featured here are the work of graphic designers and web designers.

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CSS Nature

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We Love WP

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Cart Frenzy

CartFrenzy is a web design gallery that showcases the most well-design e-commerce and shopping websites.

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CSS Leak

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CSS Collections

CSS Collections is a website focused on providing its audience with a wide range database of well designed CSS based & standard compliant websites from around the world.

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RGB Graden

RGB Garden | pixel inspiration is a CSS and Flash inspiration gallery that recognize the web design by giving an award. There are 3 awards will be given by RGB Garden.

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Design Source

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CSS Tea

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Unique CSS

UniqueCSS.com is a CSS gallery featuring some of the most unique CSS designs on the web.

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Design Snips

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Creamy CSS

Creamy CSS is an inspirational showcase of the best CSS websites from around the world. We are collecting only the most beautiful, creative and professional looking CSS websites.

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CSS Line

CSSline is all about excellent CSS sites from all over the world. CSSline includes many neat features like full color filtering and filtering by tags.

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CSS Depot

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CSS Scoop

CSSscoop is your resource for the freshest designs, as well as design news from “The Scoop“. Get inspired!

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Submit CSS

Submit Css is a website which showcases only the best web site designs on the web and allows you (the web designer) to submit your css-based designs. Submit Css has been around for quite some time and since the begining, we’ve been trying to showcase only the sites that we feel deserve to be showcased.

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CSS Vote

cssVote is all about new and innovative CSS / XHTML web designs. It’s a showcase of designer’s work and serves to give you inspiration.

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We Love CSS

weloveCSS is a gallery website that shows well designed websites based on (valid) CSS.

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CSS designs

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CSS World

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This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.26

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

This is my weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that I have shared via Twitter in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of my Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news and resources.

As always, if you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not hesitate to share them here: Submit News. Thanks to everyone that has been emailing.

StylesInspiration – Web Design and Style Inspiration

I had initially launched StylesInspiration just over a year ago, but due to personal time restraints I couldn't at the time maintain two blogs, and one of them simply had to go.
With a little support I have been able to relaunch.
Basically, StylesInspiration is a stripped down web design showcase, with the focus purely on the many different styles of web design.
I hope you like it.
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Finding Inspiration in Uncommon Sources: 12 Places to Look

Inspiration can be a fickle thing. Most designers, when lacking ideas, turn to design galleries to find ideas. But there are a few problems with that approach. The most obvious is that when taking inspiration from similar mediums, there’s a fine line between “inspired by” and “copied”. To some extent, looking at established website designs can also be somewhat limiting, especially if you’re looking for a fresh solution to a problem.
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What's Coming in WordPress 3.0 (Features)

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Make your MooTools Code Shorter, Faster, and Stronger

MooTools is one of the most flexible, modular, and well written JavaScript frameworks available. So many people use it but many of them don't optimize their code. This post will provide you with fifteen simple tips for making your MooTools code shorter, faster, and stronger.
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What really happens when you navigate to a URL

In this interesting article, you will take a deeper look at the sequence of events that take place when you visit a URL. After reading you will say to yourself “I did not know that!”
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Typography on Wordpress Blogs – What You Need to Know

When designing for a webpage there is a full set of new problems to overcome. You are dealing with an audience that has different screen sizes and platforms. There is a way a designer must work to take all of this into consideration while designing a page that it easily viewed in all different platforms. You can not assume that all of your viewers are using the same equipment you are; even the speed of connection should come into mind when you are designing.
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6 Smashingly Practical CSS3 Effects You Can Use Right Now

In this article you will get the opportunity to take a deep look at 7 impressive, concrete, real-life CSS3 effects and techniques that you can implement in your next design.
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25 Beautiful Examples of “Coming Soon” Pages

“Coming soon” pages are a great way to tide over your visitors until you finish your new website. They can be used as a teaser for your future website, or places to simply put your information where people can get to it while you are under digital construction. SixRevisions have put together a collection of how websites are successfully using “coming soon” pages.
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50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms)

In this post, Smashing Magazine present an overview of useful CSS/jQuery coding tips, tricks and techniques for visual effects, layouts and web form design to help you find solutions to the problems you are dealing with or will have to deal with in future.
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30 Minimal Logo Designs that Say More with Less

Often the most memorable ones are those that are simplistic. Instead of relying on detailed graphics and icons, these minimal logos rely on creative typography, simple shapes, and clever negative space to tell the story.
Here is a showcase of 30 minimal logo designs that say more with less.
30 Minimal Logo Designs that Say More with Less »

40 Really Professional Looking Logo Design Tutorials

40 Really Professional Looking Logo Design Tutorials »

Beautiful Olympic Inspired Designs

How To Get Digg, Delicious and Tweet Counts Using jQuery

In this brief tutorial, you will be shown how to programmatically get Digg, Delicious and Tweet counts for a specific URL using jQuery. You will be able to style this data however you like using CSS. And the best part is that you can do this without depending on any server side code.
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Learning jQuery: Your First jQuery Plugin, “BubbleUP”

BubbleUP is a fun and easy plugin to get you started in jQuery. The effect is a nice starting point for learning the basics and many of the steps involved in creating other more intricate plugins you will make in the future. With this plugin, images in a list will enlarge with a smooth animation when you move your mouse over it. Then, if you move the mouse out, it will reset to the original size with the same smooth animation.
Learning jQuery: Your First jQuery Plugin, “BubbleUP” »

CSS3 Dropdown Menu Tutorial

You can learn how to create a Mac-like multi-level dropdown menu that has been created using border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow. It renders perfectly on Firefox, Safari and Chrome. The dropdown also works on non-CSS3 compitable browsers such as IE7+, but the rounded corners and shadow will not be rendered.
CSS3 Dropdown Menu Tutorial »

Coding a CSS3 & HTML5 One-Page Website Template

In this tut you will learn how to build an HTML5 web template, using some of the new features brought by CSS3 and jQuery, with the scrollTo plug-in.
Coding a CSS3 & HTML5 One-Page Website Template »

Creating A Cool 3D Product Box Right Inside Adobe Photoshop

Here is a cool Photoshop tutorial to create a 3D product box. This tutorial requires the Adobe Photoshop CS4 extended edition. Otherwise you will not have access to the cool 3d features and menus that this product offers.
Creating A Cool 3D Product Box Right Inside Adobe Photoshop »

Create a Les Paul Guitar in Illustrator

In this tutorialyou will be learning how to create a Les Paul Electric Guitar Vector Image in Adobe Illustrator. This is a really in depth tutorial, in an attempt to cater for the needs of people who are not confident in Illustrator.
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